When patches get stuck in bugzilla it is usually for one of a few reasons:
1. No one has time (this happens) yet (not usually for months though)
2. You didn't read the contributing page and package it like we asked (which might make it take months)
3. It didn't build
4. It didn't have unit tests
5. You did anything like make your own big/little endian implementation (which we already have ONE so we don't need ANOTHER)
6. It didn't have our naming conventions and stuff (Horrible Presntation Format?)
7. Someone thought that someone else would do it and everyone else thought that.
This code should be in the scratchpad. Check that and then ping and make noise.
Ultimately though I'd regard anything that could only "extract" as a little semi-useful util (UNIX strings command and PERL can do the same things just fine with less code). To reach any level of status in the project you must round-trip. Meaning READ->Modify->Write at least a blank doc! :-)
Don't think this doesn't mean we don't love contribution, just we are more interested in PEOPLE and people who do things the RightWay(tm).
-andy
Nick Burch wrote:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Salma Saad wrote:
After successfully using POI for Excel and being completely happy with
it I'm in desperate need now of POI for PowerPoint.
I've contributed some code to extract text from powerpoint files, I think it's still stuck in bugzilla though. All being well, I'm hoping to be able to expand it over the coming months.
There isn't any write support as yet, and probably won't be for some time (I'll be concentrating on reading first)
Nick
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